Sunday, July 24, 2011

Autre Ne Veut

Autre Ne Veut: S/T, Olde English Spelling Bee 2010

Yesterday I hooked up the turntable that's just been sitting here in our apartment, took the bus down to the record store, and bought the first LP I've ever walked into a store and shelled out for. This was that LP- Autre Ne Veut's debut from December of last year. It's synthesizer R&B that looks back over its shoulder at the '90s (in the British sense of '90s R&B infused dance music) whilst keeping ten fingers firmly on the control surface of a very densely layered and arranged set of wobbly electronics.

Autre Ne Veut: Body EP 2011 (yes, that's supposed to be the cover art)This is the record that alerted me to the existence of this band in the first place. You can hear a little more Erasure in the influences on this one. The idea of typical pop song structure and forward motion seems to have found a better foothold in the guy's head by the time he started working on this record, to boot. The opening track, "Sweetheart", grabbed me right away.

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I don't know if I'd have given him the time of day if I had read about him first, especially since the few reviews I've read since contain the word "histrionics" as a positive modifier. In an information vacuum, however, he makes weird electronic music that I could get into.